Polymer Nanocomposites / / Giuliana Gorrasi, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910674026503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Disciplina: 620.118
• Soggetti: Nanocomposites (Materials)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: About the Special Issue Editor vii -- Preface to "Polymer Nanocomposites" . ix -- Lorenzo Massimo Polgar, Francesco Criscitiello, Machiel van Essen, Rodrigo Araya-Hermosilla, Nicola Migliore, Mattia Lenti, Patrizio Raffa, Francesco Picchioni and Andrea Pucci Thermoreversibly Cross-Linked EPM Rubber Nanocomposites with Carbon Nanotubes Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 58, doi: 10.3390/nano8020058 1 -- Sithiprumnea Dul, Luca Fambri and Alessandro Pegoretti Filaments Production and Fused Deposition Modelling of ABS/Carbon Nanotubes Composites Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 49, doi: 10.3390/nano8010049 19 -- Shujahadeen B. Aziz Morphological and Optical Characteristics of Chitosan(1−x):Cuo x (4 ≤ x ≤ 12) Based Polymer Nano-Composites: Optical Dielectric Loss as an Alternative Method for Tauc's Model Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 444, doi: 10.3390/nano7120444 44 -- Lik-ho Tam and Chao Wu Molecular Mechanics of the Moisture Effect on Epoxy/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 324, doi: 10.3390/nano7100324 59 -- Rong Guo, Tifeng Jiao, Ruirui Xing, Yan Chen, Wanchun Guo, Jingxin Zhou, Lexin Zhang and Qiuming Peng Hierarchical AuNPs-Loaded Fe3O4/Polymers Nanocomposites Constructed by Electrospinning with Enhanced and Magnetically Recyclable Catalytic Capacities Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 317, doi: 10.3390/nano7100317 79 -- S ´ebastien Livi, Luanda Chaves Lins, Jakub Peter, Hynek Benes, Jana Kredatusova, Ricardo K. Donato and S´ebastien Pruvost Ionic Liquids as Surfactants for Layered Double ; Hydroxide Fillers: Effect on the Final Properties of Poly(Butylene Adipate-Co-Terephthalate) Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 297, doi: 10.3390/nano7100297 95 -- Ilke Uysal Unalan, Derya Boyacı, Silvia Trabattoni, Silvia Tavazzi and Stefano Farris Transparent Pullulan/Mica Nanocomposite Coatings with Outstanding Oxygen Barrier Properties Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 281, doi: 10.3390/nano7090281 111 -- Mario Abbate and Loredana D'Orazio Water Diffusion through a Titanium Dioxide/Poly(Carbonate Urethane) Nanocomposite for Protecting Cultural Heritage: Interactions and Viscoelastic Behavior Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 271, doi: 10.3390/nano7090271 125v Valeria Bugatti, Gianluca Viscusi, Carlo Naddeo and Giuliana Gorrasi Nanocomposites Based on PCL and Halloysite Nanotubes Filled with Lysozyme: Effect of Draw Ratio on the Physical Properties and Release Analysis Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 213, doi: 10.3390/nano7080213 143 -- Albanelly Soto-Quintero, Angel Romo-Uribe, V´ ´ ıctor H. Berm ´udez-Morales, Isabel Quijada-Garrido and Nekane Guarrotxena 3D-Hydrogel Based Polymeric Nanoreactors for Silver Nano-Antimicrobial Composites Generation Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 209, doi: 10.3390/nano7080209 155 -- Giuseppe Cavallaro, Anna A. Danilushkina, Vladimir G. Evtugyn, Giuseppe Lazzara, Stefana Milioto, Filippo Parisi, Elvira V. Rozhina and Rawil F. Fakhrullin Halloysite Nanotubes: Controlled Access and Release by Smart Gates Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 199, doi: 10.3390/nano7080199 173 -- Tolesa Fita Chala, Chang-Mou Wu, Min-Hui Chou, Molla Bahiru Gebeyehu and Kuo-Bing Cheng Highly Efficient Near Infrared Photothermal Conversion Properties of Reduced Tungsten Oxide/Polyurethane Nanocomposites Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 191, doi: 10.3390/nano7070191 185 -- Jordina Fornell, Jorge Soriano, Miguel Guerrero, Juan de Dios Sirvent, Marta Ferran-Marqu´es, Elena Ib ´a ˜nez, Leonardo Barrios, Maria Dolors Bar ´o, Santiago Suri ˜nach, Carme Nogu´es, Jordi Sort and Eva Pellicer Biodegradable FeMnSi Sputter-Coated Macroporous Polypropylene Membranes for the Sustained Release of Drugs Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 155, doi: 10.3390/nano7070155 198 -- Caitlin Brocker, Hannah Kim, Daniel Smith and Sutapa Barua Heteromer Nanostars by Spontaneous Self-Assembly Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 127, doi: 10.3390/nano7060127 210.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the last decades, nanoscience and nanotechnologies have offered new opportunities for producing materials with structural and functional properties. The possibility to manipulate the matter, on an atomic or molecular level, can allow the obtainment of structures having unique characteristics and completely new functionalities. The use of structural and functional nanoparticles to be added to polymer nanocomposites is a nice way to manipulate the matter's properties following a bottom-up approach. The hybrid fillers can be used, not only as for structural purposes, but also as functional nano-structures in many fields, such as microelectronics, packaging, drug delivery, flame retardant materials, and environmental issues. A number of interesting nanoparticles, such as clays (lamellar or tubular), silica, carbon nanotubes, siloxanes, and, more recently, graphenes, have emerged as peculiar nanofillers for enhancing the performance of polymer matrices for a wide variety of technological applications. The present chapter aims to present the last research and novelty in the field of polymeric nanocomposites' materials. Methods of productions, as well as polymers and type and shape of the fillers and their functionalities are widely reported. Structural organization and physical properties of the polymer matrix are correlated with the nature of filler.

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Rousseau and The social contract / / Christopher Bertram

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974294703321
• Autore: Bertram Christopher <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 0-203-48037-6; 1-280-07408-6; 1-134-63395-5; 1-134-63396-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Collana: Routledge philosophy guidebooks
• Disciplina: 320.1/1
• Soggetti: Political scientists
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.205-209) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Rousseau and The Social Contract; Copyright; CONTENTS; REFERENCE KEY TO CITED ROUSSEAU TEXTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ROUSSEAU, THE MAN; CONFESSIONS; GENEVA; ADOLESCENCE; FROM VENICE TO VINCENNES; MUSIC; FICTION; CONDEMNATION; IN RETROSPECT; 2 HUMAN NATURE AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY; BASIC IDEAS; ROUSSEAU'S VOCABULARY OF THE PASSIONS; THE PROBLEM OF DEPENDENCE; THE NATURAL GOODNESS OF HUMANITY; THE ROLE OF ARTIFICE; WAS ROUSSEAU RIGHT?; THE PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY OF THE DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY; 3 MAN IS BORN FREE (Book 1, Chs 1-2); THE TEXT; MEN AS THEY ARE - LAWS AS THEY COULD BE; MAN IS BORN FREE; THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE HUMAN RACE (Geneva Manuscript ch.2)4 FALSE THEORIES OF THE BODY POLITIC (Book 1, Chs 3-5); NATURAL SUBORDINATION (1.2); THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGER (1.3); OF SLAVERY (1.4); THE NEED FOR A FIRST CONVENTION (1.5); 5 THE SOCIAL PACT AND PROPERTY (Book, Chs 6-9); THE SOCIAL PACT; THE 'REMARKABLE CHANGE IN MAN' (1.8); FREEDOM; PROPERTY (1.9); 6 SOVEREIGNTY AND THE GENERAL WILL (Book 2, Chs 1-6); EARLIER MENTIONS OF THE GENERAL WILL; THE INALIENABILITY AND INDIVISIBILITY OF SOVEREIGNTY (2.1-2); THE GENERAL WILL AND THE 'WILL OF ALL' (2.3.1-2); VOTING AND THE PROBLEM OF FACTION (2.3.3-4)A BRIEF NOTE ON CONDORCET'S JURY THEOREM; THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGN POWER AND THE NATURE OF THE LAW (2.4, 2.6); 'UNIVERSALITY OF THE WILL AND OF THE OBJECT'; THE DEATH PENALTY (2.5); THE LAW (FURTHER ASPECTS) (2.6); MORE ON THE GENERAL WILL (4.1-2); SYNOPTIC REMARKS ON THE GENERAL WILL; 7 THE LAWGIVER, CULTURE AND MORALITY (Book 2, Chs 7-12); WHY THE LAWGIVER IS NEEDED; THE QUALITIES OF THE LAWGIVER; THE REGRESS PROBLEM; SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF EQUALITY; WHAT THE LAWGIVER DOES (AND DOES NOT) DO; HOW THE LAWGIVER DOES WHAT HE DOES; PERSUASION AND FREEDOMDENATURING; PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY; LEGITIMACY AND SOCIAL UNITY; 8 GOVERNMENT AND SOVEREIGN (Book 3); THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS TASK (3.1.1-7); ROUSSEAU'S MATHEMATICAL ANALOGIES (3.1-2); THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT (3.3); DEMOCRACY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.4); ARISTOCRACY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.5); MONARCHY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.6); MIXED FORMS (3.7); GEOGRAPHICAL DETERMINISM? (3.8-9); DEGENERATION AND COLLAPSE (3.10-11); THE WELL-ORDERED STATE; AGAINST REPRESENTATIVE SOVEREIGNTY (3.15); HOW DEMOCRATIC ARE ROUSSEAU'S INSTITUTIONS?; RECTITUDE, EFFICIENCY AND COMMONALITY; 9 CIVIL RELIGION (Book 4, Ch. 8)THE TEXT; THE HISTORY OF RELIGION (4.8.1-14); TYPES OF RELIGION IN RELATION TO THE STATE (4.8.15-30); ROUSSEAU'S POSITIVE PROGRAMME (4.8.31-5); CONCLUSION; 10 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN RETROSPECT; POLITICAL HOSTILITY; 'TOTALITARIANISM' AND THE GENERAL WILL; TOTAL ALIENATION; CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ELITE DOMINATION?; THE LAWGIVER, CIVIL RELIGION, DENATURING AND ENGULFMENT; THE PHILOSOPHICAL AFTERLIFE OF THE GENERAL WILL; IS THE SOCIAL CONTRACT CONTRACTARIAN?; ROUSSEAU'S ENDURING IMPORTANCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces and assesses:*Rousseau's life and the background of the Social Contract*The ideas and arguments of the Social Contract*Rousseau's continuing importance to politics and philosophyRousseau and the Social Contract will be essential reading for all students of philosophy and politics, and anyone coming to Rousseau for the first time.